My take was Robin is in the exact same boat as Valerie: that the truth is her cancer is being managed but is by no means "cured", and at some point it will take her down.

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Agree. It's like an addict always recognizes another addict, she didn't want to say much because Valerie would have specific questions that robin wouldn't be able to dance around. She's not being honest about her condition and to try to manage a lie to someone who is also going fighting cancer would be extremely difficult.

...i noticed overall blobin was quiet during the interview and she hadnt heard of a treatment valerie mentioned. so much for being an expert.

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I think Robin can get a pass on that; treatments and even staging are different for different cancers and there's over 200 different cancers.

She does seem to have turned into quite a liar, though. An "expert" only in her mind!

And her "I'm cured" crowing is maddeningly ridiculous, and sooooo foolish -- in general, one needs to be NED ("No Evidence of Disease") for at least five years before doctors will use the "cured" word. Cancer is really good at hiding undetected, growing slowly until BOOM one day your blood tests are out of whack and then a scan shows you're back in the god-awful treatment room.

see im weird. I love Rhoda. I cant explain it. I just do. I use to watch her in reruns of the show growing up and the characters stuck with me for life. I feel like a real fag about it! but it is what it is